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Iranian tourist ban doesn’t align with the ‘Australian values’ Hedieh signed up to as a citizen

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Iranian tourist ban doesn’t align with the ‘Australian values’ Hedieh signed up to as a citizen
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Visa ban makes Iranian-Australian feel her adopted country is a ‘home that doesn’t support you’

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Hedieh Jamshidian feared the window to see her mother, living in Tehran under waves of airstrikes, was closing.

The Australian government had just announced it could block some visa holders from entering the country. So, Jamshidian, a 32-year-old Iranian Australian, decided to act quickly. Within a week she bought her mother, who held a three-month tourist visa, a ticket to Sydney.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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